-1 on supporting “bool”. Again, there’s little gain here and a lot of trouble down the road supporting an aliased type.
Sent from my primitive Tricorder > On 23 Jul 2018, at 03:29, mg <mg...@arscreat.com> wrote: > > Hi Jenn, > > @bool: You are right "bool" is of course used by many languages, including > Python :-) > > @meaning of "fin": I was thinking of the French word for "end". > > Cheers, > mg > > > -------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- > Von: Jennifer Strater <jenn.stra...@gmail.com> > Datum: 22.07.18 23:57 (GMT+01:00) > An: dev@groovy.apache.org > Betreff: Re: bool > > Hi mg, > > I also don't like the 'fin' proposal, but I could get behind 'bool'. It's > shorter but doesn't lose the meaning. It also makes it easier for people > coming from other programming languages. > > Best, > Jenn > > >> On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 11:39 PM, MG <mg...@arscreat.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> since things are going so well with my "fin" = "final" proposal, I propose >> that Groovy support "bool" as a shortcut for "boolean". >> >> "boolean" is already seeing large scale use by Groovy developers, "bool" >> instead of "boolean" saves nearly half of the keyword's characters, "bool" >> is used in C++, it fits better with the also widely used "int", and Groovy >> 3.0 is the ideal opportunity to introduce such language extensions. >> >> Cheers, >> mg >> >> >> >
